Swinging into action in September

​Wow so much happened this month!

My life...

School has been fun (and stressful) and I feel like I got a lot done.
I am super proud of this article I wrote for the WSS (West Side Story – the school newspaper). It’s about the advanced math club at my school.

WSS has proven to be more work than I thought it would be and for some reason I just can’t seem to get in the groove everyone else is in. It just feels new and odd… I guess it feels like starting a new job. I remember when I started teaching I was like a fish out of water but now I feel like I have learned to handle it better. I hope that same pattern applies to my work with the paper.

Here are some stories I have done:

An overview of our advanced math club
http://wsspaper.com/22077/reccuring/club-connection/club-connection-fun-for-fridays-f3/

This came out today -- it is a mini story about our school district's air conditioning.
http://wsspaper.com/22165/showcase/statistic-saturday-school-districts-air-conditioning/


I also went on vacation for spring break! I went to Minnesota with my father and brother. To be honest I didn’t really want to go but my father bribed me by promising to take me to The Mall of America. Was it worth it? Eh. But I got to spend a ton of time with my family and I saw a funny mug. The mug said 2016 IDK not Trump tho. I mean it’s funny to everyone here in the blue dot that is Iowa City. You see, most of Iowa leans conservative but there are a few counties that lean liberal – mine is one of them.

Thunder and Rain are chilling.

Hey I am not intentionally bashing anyone on their political affiliation but c'mon these mugs are cute!

I am actually obsessed with this album! I always listen to it when I am working on EARSL translation work.

EARSL work

My biggest achievement so far is…
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Starting to improve the grade 5 material. Haha it was not fun… All I really had to do was add the English translations but seriously why is it SO hard to find proper translations?? I mean if 20 million people speak this language they should really consider having some good online dictionaries. Don’t get me wrong one or two exist but even they have mistakes and are far from thorough or complete. Example? The words “good luck”. They should be available in a pretty straightforward manner but I have had to look on at least 5 websites to get the job done… one dictionary was just wrong and then another one had misspellings. I used Google translate, Madura dictionary, Sinhala-online dictionary, Omniglot, and the Sinhala Lexilogos keyboard. Okay enough ranting! Enjoy this wonderfully translated page…. 

Be warned! It is NOT complete. 

Scholarship Material so far...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7HcM-wHcvRWCOWw0pllJqdrAqIkgd6NPjcRFGqprtg/edit?usp=sharing​

The face people will make when they catch my mistakes... :P Don't worry everything will be proofread by someone else too!